Kathleen Weil, Liberal MNA for Nôtre-Dame-de-Grâce, says the premier made the right choice.

"We didn’t agree with their diagnosis that there was something wrong. If you’re talking about Montreal …. everybody speaks French. The common language is French and everybody understands that and everybody buys into it."

Weil says Marois’ government is distracted from the issues that matter.

"She’s trying to create this whole identity package. She doesn’t want to talk about the economy, she doesn’t want to talk about jobs."

In the spring, the Parti Québécois government opened the debate by launching a series of public hearings on Bill 14.

Geoffrey Kelley, official opposition critic for relations with the English-speaking community, sat in on the hearings and says many people outside of the anglophone community opposed the amendments.

"Those aren’t Liberal voices, those are voices that came from across Quebec," Kelley says.

He says he agrees that protecting French culture is important, but the PQ went about it the wrong way.

"We have to commit ourselves as governments to protect and promote the French fact in North America. It’s something we have to do. But Bill 14 was a bad choice."